In partnership with my good friend and fellow Utahn (Utah-ite?) Noah Sparks (@noahsparks), we have launched a new vlog series called Loop365 that will attempt to “keep you in the loop” on all-things Office 365 through detailed interviews with various members of the product and engineering teams at Microsoft. We...
For Episode 24 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I sat down to talk with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Kevin Crossman (@kevincrossman), Manager of IT Collaboration (Office 365 Content Collaboration Service Owner) at Juniper Networks, based in Sunnyvale, California (near where I grew up, btw). Kevin has had his MVP for...
In Episode 21 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I spoke with fellow Office Servers and Services MVP Becky Benishek (@beckybenishek), a Yammer experts and Online Communities Manager at Crisis Prevention Institute in Milwaukee, MI. She is also a children’s author, having published “What’s At the End of Your Nose?” and “Dr....
As part of next Wednesday’s “Office Takeover” theme at the Microsoft Ignite conference happening next week in Orlando Florida, CollabTalk will be hosting the 3rd of 5 tweetjams on Wednesday, September 27th from 12:30pm to 1:30pm Eastern on an Office-related topic — “Productivity Automation with Office and Office 365” that will bring together an assortment...
Having just returned from Auckland, New Zealand and another stellar event by fellow MVPs Debbie Ireland (@debbieireland) and Mark Rhodes (@mrhodes) – the Digital Workplace Conference (#DWCNZ), which is the rebranded NZ SharePoint Conference – I’m now catching up on a list of tasks before hitting the road again this...
Sitting through the vision keynotes yesterday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference taking place all week in Orlando, my thought was that Microsoft is finally – visibly – moving in the direction of end-to-end solutions for their customers. Which is not to say that Microsoft has not had a comprehensive vision...
Yes, this is my attempt at a click-bait title for the SharePoint and Office 365 community. But you have to admit there’s a Kardashian-like interest in the messaging feud between Office 365 Groups and Yammer, and whether the former is quietly (or quickly, depending on who you ask) displacing the...
A couple years ago, the future of the Enterprise Social Network (ESN) was bright, and just about every end user was clamoring for the latest consumer-based social tool – and every admin was interested in hearing more about how social would help them solve the elusive adoption+engagement issues in SharePoint....
What a month March was. Good golly. Aside from coming down with whatever bronchial goodness has been jumping around just about every workplace (2 rounds of antibiotics seemed to do the trick…except for that nagging cough), pulling together content and demos for 3 Microsoft Virtual Academy sessions (18 modules total),...
As promised, here is the last installment from my Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) sessions in March, with the videos now available through Microsoft’s Channel 9, and soon to be available for MVA users. In fact, I just sent off the end of session survey questions to Chris Norred at Microsoft,...
